Synopses & Reviews
Do you like your mind all jumpy?Do you like your skin all bumpy?
If you do, then take a look
At the stories in this book!
Mary Ann Hoberman and Michael Emberley's award-winning picture book featuring scary stories is now available in an affordable paperback edition - just in time for Halloween! With clear, color-coded type and clever illustrations, this fourth
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You book uses traditional teaching techniques to invite young children to read along with the text.
With special appeal to School and Library Markets, this new edition is the second paperback in the series, the first of which was a New York Times bestseller.
Synopsis
This fourth book in the New York Times bestselling You Read to Me, I'll Read to You series features spine-tingling tales designed to read aloud--perfect for Halloween or any time you want a fright Do you like your mind all jumpy?
Do you like your skin all bumpy?
If you do, then take a look
At the stories in this book
You've never met witches, zombies, ghosts, or ghouls like these before With clear, color-coded type and clever illustrations, this fourth You Read to Me, I'll Read to You book from former children's poet laureate Mary Ann Hoberman and award-winning illustrator Michael Emberley is a scary lot of fun, using traditional teaching techniques to invite young children to read along with the text.
Synopsis
Available just in time for Halloween, Hoberman and Emberley's classic collection of very short scary tales uses traditional teaching techniques to invite young children to read along with the text. Full color.
About the Author
Mary Ann Hoberman's volunteer work teaching literacy inspired her to create the
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You series of books to encourage reading. Winner of the National Book Award, she is the author of more than thirty-five books for children, including
One of Each and
Miss Mary Mack. In October 2008, Mary Ann was selected as the nation's next Children's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation at the fifth annual Pegasus Awards in
Chicago. Ms. Hoberman enjoys reading with her grandchildren: "I read to them - they read to me!" Her Web site is www.maryannhoberman.com.
Michael Emberley is the creator of the highly acclaimed picture books Ruby and its sequel, Ruby and the Sniffs; Welcome Back Sun; Dinosaurs, and most recently, Mail Harry to the Moon. Having grown up in a family of writers and artists, he is an avid reader and comic book fan. A native of New England, Mr. Emberley now lives in San Diego, California. His Web site is www.michaelemberley.com.